Antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of phenolic metabolites from flavonoid-producing yeast : potential as natural food preservatives

• Main Authors: Ng, Kuan Rei, Lyu, Xiaomei, Mark, Rita, Chen, Wei Ning
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Chemical engineering; Flavonoids; Food Preservatives
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/140861
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We analysed the antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of phenolic metabolites secreted from a naringenin-producing Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain (a GRAS organism), against the pure flavonoid naringenin and its prenylated derivatives, to assess their potential as natural food preservatives. Agar...